IP in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 has turned nearly every aspect of American life and business upside down. Concern for...
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Is BREXIT Signaling More Unraveling on the European Patent Scene?
Ever since the BREXIT process began, IP lawyers, and businesses with European IP interests have...
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Reducing Dosage; Patentable. Eliminating Dosage; Not Patentable
The Federal Circuit seems to be further confusing the already confused picture on the patenting of...
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Head in the Sand or Reasonable Business Practice on Willful Infringement?
Two Texas judges have come to different conclusions as to whether a refusal to read other parties’...
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Is the Federal Circuit Cutting Back Early Alice Decisions?
In a case recently decided by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the appeals court appears to announce procedural requirements that may cut down the usefulness of early dismissal motions under the Supreme Court’s landmark Alice Corporation case.
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Printed Publications
Printed publications disclosing an invention, or an obvious variant, have long served as the basis...
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Patent Venue: Where Can I Sue?
Patent infringement has long been subject to a special venue (site of litigation) statute, 28...
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1.4 Billion Reasons to Watch Out for “and” vs. “or”
A very complex settlement agreement, with a bit of sloppy drafting, torpedoed a patent...
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A Good Tutorial on “Public Use” as a Bar to Patenting
35 U.S.C. (the patent statute) § 102(b)’s bans the patenting of inventions in “public use” in the...
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Is Patent Enforcement Coming to Cannabis?
A patent for a liquid cannabinoid formulation has survived its first court challenge on the road...
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Two More Cleveland Clinic Medical Test Patents Fall; Where to Go from Here
The Federal Circuit has ruled two more Cleveland Clinic medical test (or “method”) patents...
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“Alice” Remains in Wonderland
In 2014, the Supreme Court, in Alice Corporation, Pty., Ltd. v. CLS Bank (read here), ruled that...
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Bad Records? No Derivation Action. A Case Not As Clear As Glass
Anderson Corp., the window manufacturer, could not produce the records needed to sustain a...
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“Reasonable Expectation of Success” Strikes Again; Patent Validity Upheld
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has upheld a patent at the center of an infringement suit for a...
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Plaintiff Tides Up with $3M Verdict against Nestle Purina
An Illinois federal jury awarded $3 million in damages against Nestle Purina in a patent...
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